Poet Le Thieu Nhon said that female poet Lam Thi My Da has suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years.

"Poet Lam Thi My Da carries the heart of a woman with many emotions in the midst of an unpredictable life," poet Le Thieu Nhon shared.

Poet Lam Thi My Da was born in 1949 in Quang Binh , and lives with her husband, writer and poet Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong, in Hue. She became a member of the Vietnam Writers Association in 1978, studied at Nguyen Du Writing School; participated in a training course at the Gorky Academy (former Soviet Union), and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Writers Association, terms III and IV.

She won the First Prize in the Literature and Arts Newspaper Poetry Contest 1971-1973; the Literature Award of the Vietnam Writers Association for the poetry collection Poetry Without Years and Months; the A Prize for Poetry from the National Committee of the Vietnam Literature and Arts Associations in 1999; the A Prize for Poetry from the Ancient Capital Literature and Arts Award (1998-2004) from the Provincial People's Committee and the Thua Thien Hue Literature and Arts Association.

In 2007, poet Lam Thi My Da was awarded the State Prize for Literature and Arts by the President for three collections of poetry: The Birth of the Heart (1974), The Poem Without Years (1983), and Dedicating a Dream (1988). In 2005, her collection of poems Green Rice was translated into English, printed and published in the United States.

Poet Lam Thi My Da once confided about her creative journey: “In the past, when I was very young, just one call could send me rushing into a dangerous place, a very fierce land, a road riddled with bullets and bombs... I lived with realities that were themselves epic poems without having to work or create much.

Now that I have become a wife, a mother, a poet, I can no longer live for poetry alone. Being a wife and a mother is difficult, but writing poetry is even more difficult. The suffering of a wife and a mother is the suffering of the body that goes hand in hand with happiness, a suffering and happiness that can be shared. The suffering and happiness of a poet is that one knows oneself, no one shares, no one bears...”.

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